The light at the end of the tunnel

Here's to the end of March (raises glass). Another month down and another day closer to Disney. Today is my girlfriends birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!) and yet I still have 2 tests and a paper to finish today. Oh the busy life of a college student. Disney is finally becoming an actual reality in my mindset now, to think that just a little over a month from now I will be down there is still stopping me in my tracks when I think about it. There is still so much to get squared away before then on top of my ever surmounting schoolwork. It's good because it keeps me busy, it's bad because there is SO MUCH TO DO. 

Oh and I decided to start tanning in April as well. I've never gone tanning so it should be interesting. I came to this decision by realizing that with my Scandinavian skin tone I would go up in flames down in Orlando seeing as how my job is completely outside. So I'm sure for the next 2 weeks I'm gonna look like a lobster buy I'm hoping that will help lessen the sudden and drastic change from Illinois sun and weather. Anyways, I'm gonna try to write on this more now that it is getting closer to D-Day.

RANDOM FACT:

Back in the 60s, long hair and facial hair was considered to be a sign of hippies, which the empire could not afford to be associated with. Hence a policy was born requiring all male employees to have short hair and no facial hair at the theme parks. It took until 2000 for the theme parks to renege on the policy. Now male employees are allowed to have neatly trimmed mustaches.

9 Weeks left

Today marks 9 weeks, which means 63 days, until sign in day down at Vista Way. I find myself in a WORSE place now then when I was pended. Now it just seems that all I want to do is get to Disney: a change of pace, scenery, and people. Today I find myself at the library working on some final projects over my spring break so that I am not overwhelmed with them come the end of April. Out of no where I get this feeling of monotony, a feeling that I have been in this exact same situation, in the exact same place before. I just closed my books, my laptop, and my eyes and just sat there in my little cubicle in complete silence for a couple minutes wondering how analyzing  Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" and the Industrial Revolution is going to help me better myself as an individual, as a person, as a productive member of our future workforce and society. Then the excitement of Disney kicked in.

I realized that this "internship" could be the first step in my future career. "The beginning of the rest of my life" as the cliche goes. I want change, I'm ready for it. Now some of you may be thinking "Wow, thats a lot more emotion/seriousness than I was  expecting from a blog about Disney," well to you guys apologize but I told myself when I started this blog not to change any of my emotions and to write about exactly what I was feeling when I created a new post. Besides, I'm sure some of my future CP's can agree with the feeling.

On a lighter note, however, I have requested to work Main Gates at Magic Kingdom and got a reply back that my "request was being reviewed and noted during the process of final scheduling." I really got the feeling that this was just an automated response but I'm gonna stay positive about it. I believe any job in Main Entrance (the category I got assigned to) is gonna be fun and not really all that stressful so I'll be fine with whatever I get. I suppose I've rambled on enough for this post, time for my random disney fact

RANDOM FACT:
Animal Kingdom has about 100 species of trees and shrubs foreign to North American soil.